British Airways owner to cut more flights
Aviation News Desk:
British Airways owner IAG is cutting more flights over the next three months as it adjusts to the continuing collapse in demand for air travel. report BBC.
IAG, which also runs Aer Lingus and Iberia, said quarantine restrictions meant capacity this autumn would be 60% below 2019 levels.
The group said it had seen a “delayed recovery”, and did not expect business to return to 2019 levels until 2023.
IAG also said BA had reached the outline of a jobs agreement with Unite.
The union has been in a bitter dispute with BA over redundancies and pay cuts for cabin crew. BA has already reached a separate deal with pilots.
The airline, which is aiming to shed up to 13,000 jobs, said that by the end of August some 8,236 employees had left the business, “mostly as a result of voluntary redundancy”.
